| The Early American Salon
Shields, David S.
Humanities, January/February 2008 , v29, #1, online edition
"The recent publication of the Library of America's American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries reveals a pre-Revolutionary American literary scene every bit as avid as Great Britain's in its love of artistic sociability... The very idea of the literary salon seems mannered and European. But was cultural life in early British America really so different from that in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin?" David S. Shields is McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina and editor of American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
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G16/07-07. Posted January 31, 2008
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